Previous challenges

Everest Women’s Challenge 2003 18 days, 18 women, 18,000 ft! 24th April – 9th May Everest Region, Nepal 50th Anniversary Year of Everest

The first all female multi-national team from the UAE to trek to Everest Base Camp at 5370m and create UAE point at 5500m on Kala Pattar.
18 women, nine different nationalities, age range 33 to 58 – the most amazing roving ambassadors you could ever hope to meet!
Anglo-Norwegian led by Julie Amer & Jannike Moe 
Raising awareness and funds for Breast Cancer. Dhs 180,000 rose towards a mobile breast screening unit.

3B Jordan Challenge 2004 – the “Bones in Motion Team“

Held under the Patronage of her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan 24 women from 26yrs to 69 yrs old. 10 day multi-activity challenge, hiking, biking, kayaking, 4WD, tandem sky dive, rock climbing, canyoning, horse and camel rekking – you name it we did it!
Raising awareness for Osteoporosis the crippling silent disease that affects 1 in 3 women.
Joint led by Julie Amer & Jannike Moe

Trek 4 Tsunami Project 2005 On the 26th December 2004 Asia was literally taken by storm when the devastating Tsunami destroyed so many people and places within minutes. Nothing can change what happened but the World was shocked into action and compassion. Donations of food, clothing and money poured in through various aid organizations around the Globe.

Jannike and myself decided to take an active role in the fund raising and with the support of Nakheel successfully set up a 4km on the Palm Jumeirah on the 1st April giving over a thousand Dubai residents and visitors the once in a lifetime chance to walk along the trunk of the Palm and in the process raise Dhs 100,000 which was donated to the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarion and Charity Establishment Fund towards a re-construction project in Sri Lanka.

In addition to the Palm Walk we organized a high altitude trek around the classic Annapurna Circuit in Nepal as a unique way to increase awareness.

The third stage of the project was mini adventure trips to Sri Lanka to further boost the struggling tourism economy.

Sarawak Regatta September 2005 History was made when the first all female multi -national team from the UAE took the Sarawak Regatta by storm and took 2nd place in the tourist category longboat race over a distance of 1500m on the Sarawak River. Supported by Land Rover and Malaysia Airlines the “Going beyond Expectations Team “consisted of 20 women of 10 different nationalities- many of whom had never paddled a longboat before! Amazing!